Manuscript on parchment, composed of 7 parts bound together
Description:
In Latin., Script: Each part written in different hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged: sprinkled brown leather over cardboard. Spine with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with gold-tooled title on a red leather label: "MANUSCRIPT". Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Catholic Church
Speculum perspicuum uranicum, Almanack for the year of our redemption, 1687, Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack, and Second part of this almanack
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 4 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., The words "the death of our Saviour, ... was burned, 21 years." are bracketed together on title page., Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸., and "Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack" has separate dated title page with "printed by Ralph Holt" in imprint; register is continuous.
Publisher:
Printed by A. Grover [and Ralph Holt] for the Company of Stationers
Manuscript on parchment and paper of the Alfonsine Tables, a scientific work on astronomy, executed on parchment and decorated, but unfinished, to which paper leaves have been added at a not much later date, and the text completed, probably by a scholar
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: 1) ladder in a circle with star at top, two varieties, similar to Briquet 5920; 2) eagle displayed within a circle, similar to Briquet 203., Script: Four scribes have written the manuscript: (1) the professional, humanistic hand of the parchment section; (2) the rapid, partly illegible cursive hand of the paper leaves; (3) a late humanistic hand which has supplied "radices" in red and brown inks in the lower margins of ff. 33-38; (4) a hand that filled in the numerals on the whole of f. 63r and a part of f. 36v, distinguishable by his numeral "7"., In the parchment section, headlines and part of the writing in red (the sixth place in each table is outlined in yellow glair, except in the table on f. 57r, where the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-first places are outlined in blues). Longitudinal spaces between columns of the tables in the parchment section, ff. 38v-42v, 53r, and 61r-70v, have been decorated with arabesque patterns of vines, leaves, and flowers in great variety and usually in differing combinations of glair and blue, but the work has been left unfinished toward the end of the section. No illustration., and Binding: Modern. Blue morocco, gilt, matching slipcase of straight-grained blue morocco, by R. Wallis, original gilt edges.
Annales of England and Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present year of Christ 1580
Description:
BEIN 1987 303: 20 cm. Imperfect: final leaf 4G8 wanting; bled at edges with some loss of text. Few manuscript annotations throughout. Armorial bookplate of Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive., BEIN Osborn pa94: 20 cm. Manuscript pencil annotations concerning provenance; early manuscript ink annotations and corrections throughout. Ownership inscription of Margaret Barrie on page [32] at beginning indicates this book was left to her by her father Burton, read by her in 1675, and read by Oliver in 1679. Armorial bookplate of John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley. Bookplate of Michael Scott. Binder's stamp of Riviere and Son. Stamp of H. Sotheran, with explanation in manuscript that the book was actually bought from Pickering. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., BEIN Osborn pa105: Quires ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ (the table and errata) bound at end. Manuscript shelfmark "942" written on shelf label. Armorial bookplate of the Bishopsgate Institute, with its blind stamp on multiple pages throughout and ink stamp on title page verso, no. "1627" and classification "942" written in manuscript. Ink stamp of Quenby Library also on title page verso. Few manuscript annotations throughout, with a manuscript genealogical table on rear flyleaves in what appear to be two different hands. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Bound in 16th-century full English calf, with stamp: Sober Society. Accompanied by: bookseller's description (1 leaf)., "Apparently the first edition of the 'Chronicles' in the complete form"--BM., Later editions published as: Annales., Actual printer's name from STC., Signatures: [par.]⁴, ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ A-3I⁸ 3K⁸(-3K7,8) 3L-4G⁸., Final page blank., Engraved title page showing the descent of sovereigns from Edward III., and Includes index.
Publisher:
By [Henry Bynneman for] Ralphe Newberie, at the assignement of Henrie Bynneman
BEIN Z84 55: Imperfect: Bled, with loss of most title page autograph. Autograph on front free endpaper recto: Crescentius Matherus. Manuscript table of contents on front free endpaper recto. Bookplate: Yale College Library, from the estate of Mr. George Brinley, 1879. Autograph on title page: [Crescentius Matherus?]. Manuscript notes in text. Number 8 of 17 works bound together, formerly with binder's title: Ecclesiastical tracts., BEIN Pequot Z96: Loss of manuscript autograph on title page due to trimming. Number 3 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., Includes four poems in Latin and English, pages [21-22], 1st count; two are signed by John Wilson., Signatures: A-F⁴., and Errata at foot of page 26.
Publisher:
Printed by Samuel Green
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts
Subject (Topic):
Baptism, Congregational churches, Infant baptism, Children, Religious life, Church membership, and Baptism and church membership
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 12 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Signatures: A-C⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by Tho. James for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English, Astrology, Ephemerides, and Markets
BEIN Pequot Z96: Imperfect: leaf D4 (blank) wanting. Number 4 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., Attributed to Samuel Danforth by Evans. The preface is signed by John Sherman, Urian Oakes, and Thomas Shepard., and Signatures: A-D⁴ (D3 verso, D4 blank).
Publisher:
Printed by Marmaduke Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Sodom (Extinct city), and Israel
Subject (Name):
Goad, Benjamin, -1674.
Subject (Topic):
Lust, Sodomy, Bestiality (Crime), Crime, and Anal sex
Racine, source et fondement des anabaptistes ou rebaptisez de nostre temps. English Book 1.
Description:
BEIN Pequot Z96: Imperfect: scorched, with considerable loss of text; leaf H4 wanting. Autographs on front paste down endpaper: E.S. Waterman; Elijah Waterman, 1810. Autographs on title page: Edward Rawson; Sam. F[?]oyes, 1710. Number 1 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., Translation by Joshua Scottow from book 1 of: La racine, source by Joshua Scottow et fondement des anabaptistes ou rebaptisez de nostre temps., Errors in paging: page 16 misprinted as 19, and 36 as 3., Signatures: A-H⁴ (H4 blank)., Bookseller's advertisement, p. 58: "There is now in the press, and will very shortly be extant, an excellent and usefull treatise, entittled, the Righteous Man's Evidence for Heaven, &c. By Mr. Timothy Rogers, Minister of the Gospel.", and Title within ornamental border; head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.